National Journals

The Lahore Journal of Policy Studies is a refereed biannual journal. The journal has a broad scope. It will cover national, regional and international political, economic, social and cultural issues of immediate relevance to public policy. It aims to be a forum for significant new ideas and seeks to challenge thinkers and intellectuals to policy debate. It is neither a journalistic magazine nor a technical one. It is rather a scholarly journal containing provocative, thoughtful, but well-researched writings with an educated and discerning readership in mind. It seeks originality and vigour of argument. The selection of papers will be based on topicality, originality and clarity, the extent to which they advance knowledge, understanding and application and their likely contribution towards inspiring further development, research and debate.

The Research Society of Pakistan was sponsored by the Evacuee Trust Property Board as successor to the Gokhale School of Economics and politics with the object of raising the standard of scholarship and research in Pakistan. Later, the Board proposed to the University of the Punjab to integrate the Society with University itself. Consequently, the Syndicate of the University of the Punjab in its meeting held on 30 May, 1964 decided that the Research Society be integrated with the Punjab University as a semi-autonomous body with its own Board of Governors and the Vice-Chancellor as its President.

Pakistan Vision seeks to provide a forum for discussion on issues and problems primarily relating to Pakistan. We welcome contributions by researchers, administrators, policy makers and all others interested in promoting better understanding of Pakistan affairs. Published bi-annually by the Pakistan Study Centre, University of the Punjab, Quaid-i-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan.

SDPI is inviting scholarly submissions for its fourth volume to be published in 2020. Only original papers will be accepted for the peer review process. Authors can now submit their original work along with the filled-out certification letter before the deadline. Papers will go through a software review, followed by a double-blind review process with national and international referees respectively. Papers that meet the standards of the peer review will be shortlisted, edited and then published in this Journal.

Launched in 2009, Pakistaniaat is a refereed, multidisciplinary, and open access academic journal offering a forum for scholarly and creative engagement with various aspects of Pakistani history, culture, literature, and politics. With a focus on humanities and social sciences, Pakistaniaat publishes one continuous volume per year and the completed submissions are added to the current volume as they move through our editorial process. The volume is closed at the end of the calendar year. In some cases, when a special issue is planned, we might publish two issues in a calendar year.

Pakistan Journal of International Affairs (PJIA) is peer-reviewed journal that publishes original contributions in the field of International Relations. Articles reporting empirical studies and theoretical analyses from a range of perspectives and all aspects of international affairs are welcome. The journal particularly welcomes papers that focus to sensitize and provide direction for policy and practice that arise from theoretical and empirical work. PJIA welcome articles that aim to identify news areas for research and develop critique and reflection in world politics, states affairs, international laws, Islamic laws, global social and ethical behavior and global economics issues.

The Government offers an opportunity to the readers to be benefited from the advance knowledge and original research more frequently available to them. The collection of nine articles provides innovative research on variety of issues addressing Government, Media, History, Religion, National and International Politics.

The department has been regularly publishing the Journals of Political Science (a research journal) since 1978. The journal has a diverse editorial and advisory board, indexed and abstracted internationally, and peer reviewed by at least two reviewers, one from Pakistan and one from academically advanced countries.

Established in 1933, the Department of Political Science is one of the oldest teaching faculties of the University of the Punjab, Lahore. Journal of Political Studies is an Open Access Journal. It offers M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science as well as M.A. in Diplomacy and Strategic Studies and M.A. International Relations. The Department has a well-established evening Diploma Program in International Affairs (DIA).

Journal of Politics and International Studiesis an open access, peer-reviewed, and refereed journal published by the Department of Political Science, University of the Punjab, Lahore. The journal is ranked in Z-category by Higher Education Commission, Islamabad. All contents are freely available without charges to the user or his/her institution. The readers are allowed to search, read, download, copy, print, or link to the full texts of the articles published in Journal of Politics and International Studies without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.